All About MOX
Abstract
In 1999, the Nuclear Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) signed a contract with a consortium, now called Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC to design, build, and operate a Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility. This facility will be a major component in the United States program to dispose of surplus weapon-grade plutonium. The facility will take surplus weapon-grade plutonium, remove impurities, and mix it with uranium oxide to form MOX fuel pellets for reactor fuel assemblies. These assemblies will be irradiated in commercial nuclear power reactors.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SRS (Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States))
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1148750
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; MOX; MIXED OXIDE; NNSA; SAVANNAH RIVER; PLUTONIUM; NUCLEAR; NUCLEAR FUEL; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; NRC
Citation Formats
. All About MOX. United States: N. p., 2009.
Web.
. All About MOX. United States.
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"All About MOX". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1148750.
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